Motivating Styles, which helps to assess the person's emotional style in dealing with his/her environment;

Thinking Styles, which helps to examine the person's mode of cognitive processing; and

Behaving Styles, which helps to assess the person's way of interrelating with others.

This test offers a tool to help professionals assist ostensibly normally functioning adults who may be experiencing difficulties in work, family or social relationships. It may also be helpful in career counseling or employment settings. In addition, the test's Clinical Index is useful in helping to screen for the possible presence of mental disorders in persons who present as normal.

The college sample consisted of 1,600 students (800 males, 800 females), selected from 14 colleges and universities to be representative of a college student population in terms of ethnicity, age, year in school, major area of study, region of the county, and type of institution.

Casullo, M.M., & Castro, A. (2000). Desarrollo y construccion de las puntuaciones de prevalencia del Inventario Millon de Estilos de Personalidad (MIPS) para la poblacion adulta de la ciudad de Buenos Aires./Development and construction of the prevalence score on the Millon Inventory of Personality Styles for the adult general population of the city of Buenos Aires. Anuario de Psicologia, 31(1), 63-77.